Irish boxing hero Deirdre Gogarty might be immortalised in bronze later this week as plans to erect a statue in honour of her and her groundbreaking boxing profession formally come to fruition.
The Deirdre Gogarty Legacy Committee have confirmed the statue is full and might be unveiled by the Irish boxing legend this coming Saturday.
“On September twenty first, 2024, Drogheda will honour Deirdre Gogarty, Eire’s first feminine World Boxing Champion, with the disclosing of a statue in her hometown. The sculpture, created by famend artist Laury Dizengremel, commemorates Gogarty’s trailblazing profession and her function in breaking obstacles for ladies in boxing.
“Deirdre Gogarty herself will unveil the statue, alongside Mayor Paddy Mc Quillan. The occasion is open to the general public, and media attendance is inspired. Interviews might be obtainable following the ceremony,” a press release learn.
Gogarty’s is a boxing innings price remembering. She was concerned in what’s deemed the primary ever boxing bout between two ladies in 1991, albeit an ‘unlawful’ and unsanctioned struggle at The Shannon Arms in Limerick.
Unable to get a boxing license in Eire she made the tough selection to maneuver to the USA and switch skilled to chase a World title. This transfer made the Louth native the first-ever feminine skilled boxer in Eire and led her to competing in one of the vital historic feminine fights of all time.
Gogarty versus Christy Martin is now a struggle of folklore and is deemed the spark that ignited much-needed change for ladies’s boxing. Chief help to Mike Tyson versus Frank Bruno on the MGM Grand, the entertaining struggle was the primary all-female bout to happen on a PPV boxing card.
Only a 12 months later Gogarty, a hero to Katie Taylor, realized her dream of turning into a world champion by beating Bonnie Canino in Florida on 2nd of March 1997 for the Featherweight world skilled title.
That victory cemented Gogarthy’s legacy within the sport as Eire’s First feminine skilled boxing world champion in addition to Drogheda’s first and solely skilled boxing world champion.
Since retiring in 1998, the trailblazer has been recognised for her achievements by being inducted into the Worldwide Girls’s Boxing Corridor of Fame in 2015.
It’s an achievement-packed transformative profession that the Deirdre Gogarty Legacy Committee led by Ciaran Mc Ivor of Boxing Bants have made certain might be honoured in statue kind.
